Police destroy massive narcotics cache under court order

By: Ama Gyamfuah

The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service has destroyed a substantial amount of narcotic substances in compliance with an order from the Accra Circuit Court.

The destroyed items comprised 248 fertilizer sacks, 315 wraps, 24 sachets, and 68 compressed slabs of various narcotics, in addition to three medium-sized buckets of heroin.

“We are here to destroy some substances; cocaine, dry leaves thus cannabis, after those cases have been dealt with by the court,” Registrar at the Accra Circuit Court Prosper Kingsley Damakah revealed.

The substances were confiscated and used as evidence in cases prosecuted by the circuit court between 2020 and 2024.

“Some of the cases started in 2020. The people were arrested by the Police, charged and brought to court. Judgments have been delivered in the cases’ Mr. Damakah clarified.

The narcotics were incinerated at the shoreline behind the Black Star Square in Accra, with representatives from the Narcotics Control Commission and the Judicial Service in attendance.